Bactria Timeline

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Jan 329 BCE - May 327 BCE

Alexander conquers Bactria and Sogdiana.
c. Mar 327 BCE

Alexander the Great marries the Bactrian girl Roxanne.
293 BCE

Antiochos is appointed vice-king of the Upper-Satrapies by his father Seleucus I Nicator.
c. 280 BCE

Incursion of northern nomads (Sakas) on Seleucid territories.
250 BCE

Former satrap Diodotos rebels against Seleucid king Antiochos I, creating the Greco-Bactrian kingdom.
c. 230 BCE

Diodotos II is overthrown by Euthydemos. Beginning of the Euthydemid dynasty.
208 BCE - 206 BCE

Siege of Bactra by Antiochos III.
c. 200 BCE - c. 100 BCE

Scythians tribes migrate into Bactria, Sogdiana and Arachosia.
c. 180 BCE - 80 BCE

Period of Indo-Greek rule in the Gandhara region.
145 BCE

Murder of Eucratides by his son. Weakening of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom.
c. 145 BCE

Eucratidia is taken by the Sakas.
c. 139 BCE

Eucratidia is looted to the ground by the Yuezhei.
c. 130 BCE

The Yuezhei take control of Bactria.